Xl REPORT — 1856. 



with power to add to their number, for the purpose of Dredging in the 

 neighbourhood of Belfast ; with £10 at their disposal. 



That the Rev. C. P. Miles, Professor Balfour, Dr. Greville, and Mr. C. 

 Eyton, be a Committee to report on the Dredging of the West Coast of Scot- 

 land ; with £25 at their disposal for the purpose. 



That Dr. Williams, Professor Bell, and Dr. Lankester, be a Committee 

 for the purpose of completing a Report on the British Annelida, with £25 at 

 their disposal. 



That Mr. Archer and Dr. Dickinson be requested to report on the Vege- 

 table Imports of Liverpool ; with £10 at their disposal for the purpose. 



That Mr. W. Keddie and Mr. Michael Connal be requested to report on 

 the Vegetable Imports of Liverpool; with £10 at their disposal for the purpose. 



That Professor Henslovv, Professor Phillips, Sir W. Jardine, Mr. C. C. 

 Babington, Professor Balfour, Professor Owen, Dr. Hooker, Mr. J. S. Bower- 

 bank, Rev. M. J. Berkeley, Professor Huxley, and Dr. Lankester, be a Com- 

 mittee to report on the best manner of selecting and arranging a series of 

 Typical Objects illustrative of the three Kingdoms of Nature, for Provincial 

 Museums; with £10 at their disposal for the purpose. 



That Sir W. Jardine, Bart., and Mr. Ashworth, be requested to continue 

 their observations on the Growth of Salmon ; with £10 at their disposal for 

 the purpose. 



That the Rev. P. Carpenter, Dr. Gray, and Mr. C. C. Babington, be a 

 Committee to complete the Report on the Mollusca of California; with £10 

 at their disposal for the purpose. 



That Madame Ida Pfeiffer be requested to report on the Natural History 

 of Madagascar ; with £20 at her disposal for the purpose. 



That Mr. G. Rennie be requested to continue his experiments on the pro- 

 duction of Heat by motion in fluids ; with £20 at his disposal for the purpose. 



That a Committee, consisting of Mr. A. Henderson, Mr. A. Anderson, 

 Captain Sir E. Belcher, Mr. J.R. Napier, Mr. J. Thomson, C.E., Mr. W. 

 Ramsay, C.E., Captain J. O. Owen, and Sir W. Jardine, Bart., be requested 

 to continue the investigation as to the statistics and condition of Life-Boats 

 and Fishing-Boats ; as to the principles on which such boats should be con- 

 structed ; the essential conditions of their successful use; and the manner of 

 establishing them round the coasts ; with £5 at their disposal for the purpose. 



Not Involving Grants of Money. 



Parliamentary Committee. 



That copies of the two last Reports of the Parliamentary Committee be 

 transmitted to each Member of the Genera! Committee, with a request that 

 opinions maj^ be expressed as to the important subject " whether any 

 measures could be adopted by the Government or Parliament that would 

 improve the position of Science and its Cultivators," and that such opinion be 

 forwarded for the consideration of the Council before the 20th of September. 



That the Rule by which vacancies in the Parliamentary Committee must 

 be filled up exclusively from Members of the British Association, be so far 

 relaxed, as to admit Members of either House of Parliament who have 

 advanced the interests of Science. 



That two vacancies in the Parliamentary Committee, caused by the non- 

 attendance of the Earl Cathcart and Sir J. V. B. Johnstone, Bart., during 

 two consecutive years, be filled by the election of the Earl of Burlington, 

 and Lord Stanley, M.P. for King's Lynn. 



Title of Section Y. 

 That the ' Section of Statistics ' shall in future be entitled ' The Section of 

 Economic Science and Statistics.' 



